Simon Wickham-Smith

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LIST OF WORKS

Unless instrumentation is specified, all works are for pre-recorded digital media.



First - (1999)


Giladji - (1999)


Multiple Tongues I: jusKidding (1999-2000)
text and voice: Helen Kidd


The Self-Immolation of Thich Quang Duc - (2000)
On June 11th 1963, at a crowded intersection in downtown Saigon,
Thich Quang Duc, a seventy-three year-old Viêtnamese Buddhist monk,
sat down in meditation and had two fellow monks douse him in petrol.
He then took a match and, lighting it, set himself on fire.


Sealight - (2000)


Ave Regina Celorum - (2000)


Sri Guru-vandana - (2001)


Multiple Tongues II: Songs and Dreams the Whalers Weave - (2001)
text and voice: Keith Jebb


Sandokai - (2001)


Music for Butoh - (2001)
Music created for Blue Screen, choreographed and performed by Ana Barbour and Helen Edwards, and videoed by Phil Wilkes.


Katotohanan (2001-2002)


what makes me dive in headfirst (2001-2002)


Terpsichore Twice I: Pange Lingua Gloriosi (2002)


Terpsichore Twice II: Buckminsterfullerene (2002)


Multiple Tongues III: Három Denevér (2002) text and voice: Rita Várhegyi


Three Versions of Appreciative (2002)


Multiple Tongues V: ...al tempo dei dulci sospiri... (2003)
voice Erminia Passannanti, reading from Canto V of Dante Alghieri's
La Divina Commedia: Inferno


Meiji13 (2003)


The Horizontality of Saskatchewan (2003)


Wild Geese (2003) (flute, trombone, glock, tubular ch, sop, ten, violin, cello)


Snyder Triptych (Chion-in, "Plum Petals Falling..." and Know) (2003)
(piano, counterten)


Asterisk in breathing (2003) (pn)


Heaven's Gate Sankirtan (2003)


The Humpbacks (2003) (2 ob, sop, alto, ten, bass, vn, va, ce)


Sky's in featherfall (2003) (st qt)


The Extraordinary Levitation of Dreams (2003) (erhu, sop)


chhöld (2003) (2 tr, acc, pn, sop)


Kullankeltaiset Päivät (Larry-lle) (2003)


Clouds and Stillness (2003) (hp, electronics)


Kivi-ihmisten Laulu (2003)


Multiple Tongues VI: jäätynyt, aurinko (2004) voice Vesa Törmä


love&lamentation (2004)


de mortibus contemplatio (2004)




COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

fold (2000)
With video artist Phil Wilkes
Xenos: ongoing computer-based sound-poetry project with poet Keith Jebb (2000 - )




FESTIVALS & APPEARANCES


What is Music?
(Melbourne and Sydney, Australia) February 2000


4th International Congress of Performance Art and Visual Artists
72 Hours in Sacramento (Sacramento, USA) March 2000


Sound Symposium
(St JohnÕs, Newfoundland, Canada)July 2002 (Ave Regina Celorum accepted for performance but, for personal reasons, I was unable to attend)


Virpesys Club (Vilnius, Lithuania) October 2002


Musica Nova Fringe (Helsinki, Finland) March 2003


Is Arti (Kaunas, Lithuania) November 2003


Avanto! Festival (Helsinki, Finland) November 2003


Big Sur Improvised Music Festival Big Sur, California, May 2004


RESIDENCIES, COMMISSIONS AND GRANTS



September 2000:
Residency at STEIM, Amsterdam, to research the use
of didjeridu with live computer-based sampling.


2000/1:
Southern Arts grant for collaborative research and development
project with poet Keith Jebb.


October 2002:
commissioned by Hornsea United Nations Association for Three Versions of Appreciative and by Zivile Karkauskaite for asterisks in,breathing


January-February 2003:
Residency at Inari, Finland, in collaboration with Lapin Taidetoimikunta (Arts Council of Lapland)


November 2003:
commissioned by Is Arti festival, Kaunas, Lithuania for The Horizontality of Saskatchewan


2003:
commissioned by Cheng-Ming Hwang (of the China Found Music Workshop) for The Extraordinary Levitation of Dreams


2003: commission by Emi Maeda for Clouds and Stillness



...AND, MOREOVER...

...I am an occasional member of the Helsingin Tiedokoneorkestri (Helsinki Computer Orchestra)







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